And you thought that whole iPhone 4G/HD
saga was over? CNET News has just posted excerpts from an
affidavit for the search warrant used to raid Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's house.

If you may recall, an Apple engineer
lost a prototype iPhone in a bar, a man by the name of Brian Hogan
found the phone, and an unnamed third person then sold the phone to
Gizmodo for $5,000. Once Gizmodo came into possession
of the phone, the biggest
tech news story of 2010 was upon us.

We are now learning, thanks to CNET,
that none other than the big man himself, Steve Jobs, contacted Brian
Lam and requested the return of the iPhone prototype. Steve Jobs is
known to get rather upset and tyrannical with his own employees, so
one must wonder how that conversation went.

It was
also revealed that Apple pushed police to investigate the case. CNETprovides
this excerpt from the affidavit:

Sewell told me
that after Gizmodo.com released its story regarding the iPhone
prototype on or about 4/19/2010, Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) contacted the
editor of Gizmodo.com, Brian Lam. Jobs requested that Lam return the
phone to Apple. Lam responded via the e-mail address...that he would
return the iPhone on the condition that Apple provided him with a
letter stating the iPhone belonged to Apple.

According to CNET, even after
Steve Jobs contacted Brian Lam requesting the return of the iPhone,
he still
wasn't satisfied. In fact, Lam went on to respond stating that he
wanted "confirmation that it is real, from Apple, officially."

Lam continued, stating, "Right
now, we have nothing to lose. The thing is, Apple PR has been cold to
us lately. It affected my ability to do my job right at iPad launch.
So we had to go outside and find our stories like this one, very
aggressively."

So this is how you act when a business doesn't treat you the way you demand? How does this help your case with Apple Lam? I'm pretty sure they would be more willing to give you a hand next time you needed it if you had done the right thing and handed the iPhone over, or referred Steve to the authorities should you have left the phone with them.

Instead Apple now thinks you suck even more. Bravo.

"We shipped it on Saturday. Then on Sunday, we rested." -- Steve Jobs on the iPad launch